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program maintenance

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program maintenance
Updating programs to reflect changes in the organization's business or to adapt to new operating environments. Although maintaining old programs written by ex-employees is often much more difficult than writing new ones, the task is usually given to junior programmers, because the most talented professionals don't want the job.

The Real World of Program Maintenance
Undocumented programs are a huge problem, and this commentary from PROCASE Corporation gets right to the point. The company's SMARTsystem program created a flowchart from programming source code in order to make it understandable.

program maintenance [′prō·grəm ′mānt·ən·əns]
(computer science)
The updating of computer programs both by error correction and by alteration of programs to meet changing needs.


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